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November 18, 2010

I used a plain oversized grey sweater. See the before. And resized it. I tried to add the leaves on the sleeves as well but it looked too bulky against the thin sweater. I might suggest a looser or thicker sweater to add the sleeve embellishments. Or using a thinner wool, like craft felt to make the leaves.

Doing the sweaters late in the day has really helped to make me look sharp when picking up Lily. People must think I dress this way all the time.

1. Cut out some 3" leaves from felted wool.

2. Overlap the leaves and sew them together.

3. Once you have a chain long enough to line your neck sew it to the collar.

4. Make another chain of the same length and sew to first chain.

5. Make another chain and sew it to the front of your cardigan. To hide the buttons on my cardigan I sewed the leaves on one side but overlapped it over the edge.

I found an old sweater that someone had shrunk at the community aid store and bought it solely to use for embellishing purposes. I have a couple similarly shrunk ones in varying colors. It's easier tham doing it yourself. Whenever I see a shrunken sweater at the thrift store in a color I don't already have I try to snatch it up.

hi !!! I'm french, so excuse- me for my "english". Your blog is wonderfull !!! Tommorrow , i'll see my clothes to create some "treasur" (not sure of this world: something beautyfull like you) i want to make any colors on my dark pull !!! Thank you to show us how to make it !!! bye.